Bill Maher takes down fundie pharmacists (very funny!)

[scottxyz]

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/20050408.html
via http://www.blah3.com/article.php?story=20050424125930514

Pharmacists have to fill prescriptions. As our audience seems to already know, more and more American pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control because of their personal moral objections. Hey, you know what would really teach us a lesson? If you took off your pretend doctor jacket and got another job.

Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe cutting off the pill doesn't even go far enough. Yeah, it's high time activist drugstores stopped coddling sluts on every aisle. Let's not sell any more makeup either. A good woman doesn't paint herself. And no more deodorant. You should smell bad. Keep the boys from getting ideas. And no suntan lotion. I've seen what happens at the MTV Beach House, you whore. You want to avoid melanoma, buy a veil.

Why is this country becoming Utah?! You know, I know the conservatives are always saying that the coastal elites don't really get it about them because we just fly over. Okay, maybe. But, you know what? You guys don't get us either. We need to fuck. Refusal to provide birth control threatens our economy and our very way of life here in Southern California. There's a lot of hot chicks out here, man. We need birth control! I mean, seriously, how do you think movies get made?

Now, of course, I know the other side is saying, yes, but this is a moral issue. Yeah, but the problem is, not everyone gets their morals from the same book. You go by the book that says slavery is okay but sex is wrong until after marriage, at which point it becomes a blessed sacrament between a husband and the wife who is withholding it.

In conclusion, let me say to all the activist pharmacists out there, the ones who think sex is bad probably because sex with them always is. Fellas, a pharmacist is not a law-giver, not even a doctor. In the medical pecking order, you rank somewhere in between a chiropractor and a tree surgeon.

You don't answer to a law above the laws of men. You work for Sav-On. The doctors are the ones who make medical decisions because they went to medical school, whereas you were transferred from the counter where people drop off film.

[HockeyMom]

1. Interesting Idea

Sue them for practicing medicine without a license. After all a licensed MD had to examine the patient and then write the script, they are "overruling" an MD. Did they examine the patient? Do they know the patient's history, etc?

But then again if Dr. Catman can diagnose by going to the video tape, who knows? lol

[rodeodance]

2. whow-what a slam to pharmacists in general

[chomskysright]

3. fucking funny: I wish I had a birth control script just to ferret the...

hypoChristian fundies.

[EC]

4. Actually this brouhaha is helping our side

many women I talked to last election that were voting Bushy, didn't believe me when I said this would happen...now they are apologizing to me, saying they have gone too far...Women want to feel safe about their sexuality, they want to have sex, not HAVE to get married and have adequate protection.